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AGARTALA: India has initiated the process to supply 100 MW of power from Tripura to Bangladesh, an Indian diplomat said here Tuesday. "Several steps were taken about the Indian government's commitment of supplying 100 MW of power to Bangladesh from southern Tripura's Palatana power plant," Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka Sandeep Chakravorty told reporters here after meeting Tripura Power Minister Manik Dey . He said: "The...

VADODARA: Power generation in Gujarat is not affected due to coal shortage and the state is meeting demand of its various consumers without imposing any restrictions, Energy Minister Saurabhbhai Patel said today. Power generation at coal-based thermal stations located at Wanakbori (with 1,470 mw installed capacity), Gandhinagar (870 mw capacity), Ukai (850 mw)and Sikka (240 mw) is not affected and all of them have been generating power as usual," Patel told PTI over the phone.

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has expressed its dissatisfaction over the maintenance of green cover in NTPC's power plant in Jaitpur in Madhya Pradesh. A central zonal bench comprising of Justice Dalip Singh directed National Thermal Power Corporation to carry out circular weeding of at least one metre radius around the base of each plant to prevent growth of weeds and grasses. The order came on a plea of Shatrughan Lal who claimed that NTPC had uprooted 4,139 trees during its fifth stage expansion and in spite of the directions issued by the authorities to plant 16,556 trees to compensate the loss, it failed to do so. "The photographs filed with the reply by NTPC indicate that the planting has been done in the vacant spaces within the factory premises including the office complexes, residential quarters etc," the bench said.

NEW DELHI: The 1,320 MW Maitree super thermal power project in Bangladesh, being developed by state-owned NTPC through a joint venture, is expected to start electricity generation by December 2018. The plant is to be implemented by Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Ltd (BIFPCL) - an equal joint venture between NTPC and Bangladesh Power Development Board ( BPDB ). It would have two units, each having 660 MW generation capacity, fired by coal. During the meeting of BIFCL's board today in Kolkata, the members emphasised the need to commission the unit of the project by December, 2018, according to a statement issued by NTPC.

NEW DELHI: Of the 34 proposals received by country's largest power utility NTPC for takeover , the company said it has found only about five offers worth considering. "We have been offered 34 projects of 55,000 MW capacity by the private companies for takeover, only 4-5 projects are worth looking at," an NTPC official said. The company will evaluate the quality of equipment of these projects, the level of clearances they have achieved, coal availability and sourcing the fuel in case of non- availability before buying these thermal power stations.

NEW DELHI: The country's largest power producer National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), which boasts of over 41,000 mw of power generation capacity, stated that finance minister Arun Jaitley's budget will encourage investors in the sector with its clarifications on the treatment of FDI. State-owned NTPC also welcomed declaration that adequate coal would be made available to all plants that have been commissioned or are likely to get commissioned...

HYDERABAD: Goverment-run power producer NTPC will set up a 300-MW solar park in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district through competitive bidding so that the state is able to get solar energy at a low tariff. NTPC Chairman and Managing Director Arup Roy Choudhury informed this to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu during a meeting here today. Naidu requested NTPC to expedite work on the proposed 4,000 MW plant at Pudimadaka in Visakhapatnam district. Principal Secretary (Industries)

ITANAGAR: The Centre has assured Arunachal Pradesh of resumption in coal mining at Namchik-Namphuk coalfield in the troubled Changlang district which was suspended since May 10, 2012. The assurance was given by Union Minister of State for Coal, Power and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) Piyush Goyal during a meeting with Chief Minister Nabam Tuki in New Delhi yesterday, a statement from the CMO said here today. Goyal has also instructed senior officials of the Coal Ministry to depute teams for carrying out survey of other coal rich areas of the state, it said.

NEW DELHI: NTPC today moved the Supreme Court seeking its approval to go ahead with construction of 171 MW power project in Uttarakhand which was stayed along with 23 other hydro projects by it after last year's natural disaster in the state. Agreeing to hear the plea of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), a bench of justices Vikramajit Sen and S K Singh issued notice to the state government. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar , appearing for the company, contended that the construction was already going on when the apex court passed the order and its project is not situated in the eco-sensitive zone.

BANGALORE: Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd plans to take up 244 new works costing around Rs 5,100 crores this year to improve power situation in the state, Energy Minister D K Shivakumar said today. A sum of Rs 142.47 crore had been earmarked for the purpose this year, he told reporters here. The reason for small allocation for these projects vis-a- vis the estimated cost was that the ground work like the tender process had to be completed before the projects could take-off for physical implementation, he said.